You've been working hard.



Coaching sessions. Skills development. Building confidence. Learning new approaches. You're more capable and more ready for the work you want to do than you were six months ago.

Your CV is stronger. Your applications are clearer. You can articulate your value better.

But here's the problem. New research from Princeton and Dartmouth shows that AI has broken how employers screen applications - and it's hitting people like you the hardest.

Here's what the research says happened: Before AI, employers used application effort and customisation as a signal of genuine interest. They could distinguish between someone who'd done the work to understand the role and someone who hadn't.

Now? AI tools can produce a polished, customised application in seconds.

The result: Employers are losing their ability to distinguish at the screening stage.

Not because your application isn't good - it probably is. But because they can't tell anymore who's genuinely developed their capability versus who's using AI to polish their presentation.

The screening mechanism broke. Not your applications.

The research shows this is hitting career changers, returners, and people from non-traditional backgrounds the hardest - exactly the people we work with at Stay Nimble.

Here's the challenge: Everything you're achieving with Stay Nimble - the real capability you're building, the genuine readiness you're developing, the growth you're demonstrating - is invisible to employers at the screening stage.

Not because you're not doing the work.

Because the way employers screen can't see it anymore.

This is a market structure failure. You're building real capability. The market can't recognise it.

We're exploring ways to fix this, and we need to hear from you first:

• Are you experiencing this? (Applications going nowhere despite your development?)

• What do you wish employers could see about the growth you've achieved?

• What would help you stand out based on your actual readiness, not just your CV?
  

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Your capability is real. Your growth is real. Your readiness is real.

The screening system just can't see it yet. We want to understand your experience so we can explore solutions together.